Deep-sea sediments reveal the production sites of the heaviest chemical elements in the Universe to be neutron star mergers — rare events that eject large amounts of mass — and not core-collapse supernovae.
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Thielemann, FK. Deep-sea diving for stellar debris. Nature Phys 11, 993–994 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3591
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